Daghani, bed 205: Kimmeridgian, Somalia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Aulacomyellidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Somalia
Coordinates: 10.3° North, 45.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.1° South, 41.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval: 154.8 - 149.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Daghani Shale
Local section:Daghani Local bed:205
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Kimmeridgian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:93009
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-12-21 04:18:24 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-12-21 04:18:24
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

31424. L. R. Cox. 1935. Jurassic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia. The Mesozoic Palaeontology of British Somaliland, Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland, II 148-197 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]